Industrialising farmland for solar energy could undermine food security

Conservative MP Robbie Moore said he was concerned that the Energy and Net Zero Secretary had not listened to rural and farming communities after providing the green light for three solar farm developments in Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire

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"I have to say that the Government's disastrous decision to industrialise our highly productive, good agricultural land by approving three huge solar farms clearly demonstrates their unwillingness to listen to the concerns of local rural communities."
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"I have to say that the Government's disastrous decision to industrialise our highly productive, good agricultural land by approving three huge solar farms clearly demonstrates their unwillingness to listen to the concerns of local rural communities."

Conservative MP Robbie Moore has raised concern that Labour's plans for clean energy infrastructure on prime agricultural land could undermine Britain's food and national security. Energy and Net Zero...

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